Special Message
12/22/1863
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The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
Ordered, That no clearances for the exportation of hay from the United States be granted until further orders, unless th...
The expediency of any legislation on the subject is submitted for your consideration.
But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...